The lags in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy mean that policymakers must forecast the future path of the economy. Accurate forecasts are only possible with a clear understanding of the structure of the economy and the shocks affecting it. This two-week seminar aims to improve...

The main objective of the workshop is to help the leaders of local governments and national level policy makers develop a strategic approach in dealing with environmental and social issues facing businesses. This can be achieved by: - Demonstrating the potentials of transforming SME clusters...

The workshop organisers particularly welcome papers that address any of the following issues: - Adjustment of unemployment, employment and wages - The roles of reforms and polices in influencing labour market outcomes - Tools for analysing the labour market situation

The workshop agenda will focus on issues related to uncertainty and learning as they relate to the economics and management of environmental and natural resources. Appropriate paper topics include decisions under uncertainty, the value of information, and different models of learning (including...

The 2009 European PhD Winter School on The Challenge of Adaptive Governance aims to help students to better understand the causes of global change in an integrated manner and at the same time to develop options for the governance of a transition to more sustainable development paths at the...

The meeting will take place jointly with the 3rd International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE09). Tracs: - Computational Econometrics and Financial Time Series - Fuzzy Statistical Analysis - Optimization Heuristics in Estimation and Modelling - Robust Analysis of...

Has the path to development through industrialization as we know it been exhausted? Or is the world at the dawn of a new era in industrialization and development? These are some of the questions that this two-day workshop aims to address. With the world in financial and economic crisis and...

Sustainably managing the local and the global commons requires not only an understanding of the environmental factors that affect them, but also a knowledge of the interactions and feedback cycles that operate between such resource dynamics and the socio-economic dynamics attributable to human...

The primary focus of the workshop is on graduate students, faculty and researchers at universities, public or private institutes, or government agencies involved in research in environmental and natural resource economics.

With the financial problems of social security systems, the shift from defined benefit to defined contributions and the demographic changes happening worldwide, longevity risk is becoming increasingly important but still quite difficult to manage or hedge. We are inviting academics to submit...